Huntsville gazette., 1887-10-08
ST. LOUIS GUESTS.

The President and Mrs. Cleveland tfse AF
sorbing Topic of Conversation Among the
Citizens of ST. Louis, and the Shrine TO
which All Eyes Are for the Time BeiNg
Turned.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3.-Although st. Louis
Is lust recovering from week or over
crowding. it did not take back seat in
the matter yesterday. The weather
PLAYED vigorously into the hands OF all
lovers of outdoor life by providing day
so bright that walk or a drive on the
avenue or a stroll through the parks was
delightful They took advantage OF IL
and all the principal streets presented
tide of happy, prosperous humanity more
cheerful and cheering than had crowded
them before this season. 1t was not the
usual crowd that a bright summer sun
day turns out. There were hundreds OF
strangers, and, apparently, five ladies TO
every man; especially was the latter
statement true of that part of the crowd
which rode and walked through the boule-
wards in the western part of the city.
The Inducements which nature offered
did not alone call the myriads to the
streets and the parks Uppermost IN the
minds of nine out of every ten OF them
was a desire to see the distinguished
visitors. President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Vandeventer place temporarily lost its
feature, indicated by the gilded sign:
''No thoroughfare, which hung over the
entrance Pedestrians who had never
passed along its pleasant walks before,
began TO appear on Grand avenue early III
the morning. They met no blue-coated
policemen, and after pausing and looking
down over the green sward, studded
with its beds of flowers and along the
Iina re na,atial residences, they
entered cautiously and paused on the in
side of the gate as though expecting to
be told they were intruding. Then they
passed on and stopped long enough I'D
front of the mayor's residence to count
every brick in it. Those who followed
them entered with more assurance, and
they snent less time in front of the resi-
dence in which were quartered the visit
ors, for the little scattering knots or the
first hour became solid line that
crowded them on. There were the
rich, the poor, the fashionable and
the plain. Carriages began to arrive
in the neighborhood of the place
long before the morning church bells rang
and its beautiful drives were lined with
variety of equipages from that time till
late hour in the afternoon. They talked
of nobody-of nothing-but the President
and Mrs. Cleveland, and they. wanted to
show to them that they were more keeniy
appreciated and could be more flattering'
" treated in st. Louis than at any othes
place on the habitable globe.
The downtown crowds were no less
eager and expectant than those who
thronged Vandeycnter Place. They
watched every carriage. The streets were
full Of longings. The town was as eager
as a family of children watching for
Santa Claus. They seemed to expect that
the President might appear almost any
| place at almost any time, and the young
! ladies fairly danced in their eagerness Tor
| the time to come when they could gaze
! on a "real live President" and "first lady
/ OF the land" and the men were anxious
to see for themselves what sort of man
! it was who climbed so high on the political
! ladder In so short time.
The peddlers on the street put away
their Grand Army badges, and pictures OF
! noted soldiers, and brought out portraits
of the President and Mrs. Cleveland They
sold hundreds Of them to those who
wanted something by which to identify
the President if they met him anywhere
Those who had little hope of seeing hin
Yesterday spent the day in discussing the
programme which will be carried out to
dav and tomorrow, and planning fol-
those davs. They all expect to see th'
President before he leaves the city, ant
! most Of them will.